Technology+Conference+Video

=[|Helen Hayes Jacobs - Curriculum21]= This video gets the viewer intrigued immediately. She simple asks what year are we preparing kids for and that the enemy is the number 2 pencil. I find it comical because so many people in administration still seem to struggle with that vision. In all actuality it might not be the administration it may be the government that provides the funding for eduction. We are very fortunate in Harrisburg because of our growth but there are some schools particularly in South Dakota that do not have the luxury we have and find it difficult to find money for the technology that is needed.

Helen talks about that teachers are very willing to do things with technology they just need to know how. We need to know when to use specific web tools when they are better. There is nothing wrong with you searching for something and you get side track because that is true learning. Helen has a great point she made when she gave her husband a newspaper and asked how is last nights years. Our textbooks are dated and from the moment it is printed it is out of date.

It is important to find out what a quality blog looks like. Helen believes that the common core is an opportunity to modernize education. Other examples is what makes a quality Wiki or podcasts. Have students design a list of tweets about what a Historian would say during a major event another option is creating a facebook for the historians. She feels that every student should design an app instead of answering the questions at the end of hte chapter.